ELECTION 2025: First round of results – most incumbents in second place

The voting’s over, the vote-counting has begun. King County Elections has released the first round of results. First, the races in which the top two will appear on your November ballot, with all but one incumbent in second place so far, and no one in third place anywhere close to the top two:

SEATTLE MAYOR: Top two are Katie Wilson 46%, Bruce Harrell* 45%

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Katie Wilson 44,457 46.21%
Bruce Harrell 43,160 44.86%
Joe Mallahan 4,640 4.82%
Clinton Bliss 1,275 1.33%
Ry Armstrong 996 1.04%
Isaiah Willoughby 473 0.49%
Thaddeus Whelan 424 0.44%
Joe Molloy 402 0.42%

SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL CITYWIDE POSITION 8 Alexis Mercedes Rinck* 75%, Rachael Savage 15%

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Alexis Mercedes Rinck 68,078 75.24%
Rachael Savage 13,503 14.92%
Ray A. Rogers 4,328 4.78%
Jesse A. James 2,534 2.80%
Cooper Hall 1,333 1.47%

SEATTLE CITY COUNCIL CITYWIDE POSITION 9 Dionne Foster 54%, Sara Nelson* 39%

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Dionne Foster 50,521 53.69%
Sara Nelson 36,786 39.10%
Mia Jacobson 3,366 3.58%
Connor Nash 3,135 3.33%

SEATTLE CITY ATTORNEY: Erika Evans 51%, Ann Davison* 37%

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Erika Evans 48,290 51.13%
Ann Davison 35,136 37.20%
Rory O’Sullivan 5,983 6.34%
Nathan Rouse 4,702 4.98%

KING COUNTY EXECUTIVE: No incumbent in this race. Top two are County Council President Girmay Zahilay with 40%, County Councilmember Claudia Balducci with 30%

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Girmay Zahilay 103,471 40.39%
Claudia Balducci 77,590 30.28%
Derek Chartrand 32,085 12.52%
(John Wilson 23,897 9.33% – “suspended” campaign too late to be removed from ballot)
Rebecca Williamson 6,072 2.37%
Amiya Ingram 4,707 1.84%
Bill Hirt 4,701 1.83%
Don L Rivers 2,674 1.04%

And the two ballot measures being decided in this election:

SEATTLE CITY DEMOCRACY VOUCHERS LEVY RENEWAL: Passing with 56% approval

KING COUNTY PARKS LEVY RENEWAL: Passing with 70% approval

These represent just under 19 percent of county voters’ ballots; so far the county has received 24 percent of voters’ ballots. Next round of results, Wednesday afternoon.

vapocool August 5, 2025 (8:35 pm)

Here we go again…instead of going forward we are going backwards

Pauline August 5, 2025 (9:04 pm)

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Backwards? It’s actually a pretty progressive group…
Seattlite August 5, 2025 (9:28 pm)

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Vapocool…Agree. Seattle cannot seem to get any forward traction movement to get itself out of the same ol’ same ol’ pattern it has been stuck in for many years.
- Husky August 6, 2025 (4:53 am)
  
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  No one is stopping you or ‘QA’ from making “forward traction” to Idaho.
  - ltmmgm August 6, 2025 (12:02 pm)
    
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    @Husky, Why is the all time response to someone that leaves a comment like Vapocool and QA “forward traction to Idaho”? From your response I’m assuming you think they’re “red” and should live somewhere thats mostly red, you don’t know this and to comment like you did is rude, to tell them to just move. You have no idea if these two have lived here their whole life, well I do for Vapocool, I am his spouse, we both have worked hard for the things we have and don’t think or “expect” the world owes us anything for free. And by the way, we live in Burien so we had no say so on the Mayor but again there is the domino effect from the City of Seattle.
    - Question Authority August 6, 2025 (2:24 pm)
      
      I was born here and have watched this City do a downward spiral under the influence of Progressives, I’m not interested in moving to Idaho. I’m invested in not letting this City go any further downhill by electing dreamers or followers of fluffy ideals and failed social experiences. We need adults leading with experience, not others who dream of a grandiose utopia.
- Foop August 6, 2025 (9:56 am)
  
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  Anyone who voted for Harrell before or this week are quite literally trying to go backwards. Electing a career council president who is responsible in part for a lot of what you dislike today isn’t going to magically change things.
Peter August 5, 2025 (9:33 pm)

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This is a huge leap forward! True progressives are leading the mayoral, city council, city attorney, and county executive races. The “we’re afraid of alienating ultra-rich conservatives who won’t vote for us anyway” crowd are all losing. Tonight I feel better about the future of the city than I have in years!
- Brandon August 6, 2025 (10:00 am)
  
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  So then those people leave, and we run out of people to tax and need more “progressive” policies on the backs of the ever-growing lower class. As is fast track were on… Next ballots will have yet another minimum wage increase and higher taxes, and the people will say things are getting MORE worse but vote for “progress” again – how much you wanna bet?Im starting to think you could put a peanut on a voter pamphlet, put “progressive” as the about me, and it’d win against a republican in this area. Who needs a brain when youre “progressive” and vote blue no matter who.
  - Nolan August 6, 2025 (1:02 pm)
    
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    Who left?
  - natinstl August 6, 2025 (3:28 pm)
    
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    Completely agree.
  - Wondering August 7, 2025 (12:02 am)
    
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    Brandon, do you have an example of a place where what you describe actually happened?
Question Authority August 5, 2025 (9:53 pm)

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So unfortunate that voters get suckered by fluffy ideals instead of treating it like a complex machine. They think things will run better with a shiny paint job and then forget to fill the gas tank and lament it doesn’t work. This is what foolishness costs.
- Fairmount August 6, 2025 (8:54 am)
  
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  I’m convinced voters are either in a bubble or are all new to the city and haven’t seen the issues that are plaguing it. We continue to elect extremely liberal candidates that spew the same things with no action once elected. Then we are stuck without change or improvement for 4 years. At least Harrell and the more conservative council have been making improvements to cleaning up the homeless encampments and RVs. Plus actually taking law breakers to court and increasing the punishment for graffiti. We need the law to apply and these new candidates just don’t get it. We have tried all of these candidates bright ideas in the past 10 years. They’re nothing new. They do not work and it’s been proven.
  - B August 6, 2025 (11:49 am)
    
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    As a moderate, I agree with Fairmount. As far as I’m concerned, both the far left and the far right viewpoints are a bit nutty. Far left progressives are mired in pollyannaism, which includes ignoring negative realities. Far right conservatives have embraced the ‘greed is good’ and the ‘my way or the highway’ philosophies way too much for my liking. Perfect solutions that make everyone happy don’t exist for many problems. The best we can do probably involves compromise to afford the greatest good.
  - wsres August 6, 2025 (12:03 pm)
    
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    agree!
  - Jort August 6, 2025 (8:10 pm)
    
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    I always, always, always love this argument, “the voters are too stupid to know what’s best for them!” This always comes up.
- Nolan August 6, 2025 (1:03 pm)
  
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  Please elaborate on what the “paint job” and “gas tank” are in this metaphor. It’d be helpful to be specific in terms of policies.

Rhonda August 5, 2025 (8:40 pm)

I’ll be glad to see Bruce Harrell give his concession speech on Election Night in November.

Seattlite August 5, 2025 (9:34 pm)

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Rhonda…I agree that it would be good news to have Harrell gone. However, Seattle’s mayors tend to be interchangeable mayors…wash, dry, fold, repeat…no changes, no vision, no short- or long-term problem solving.
Question Authority August 5, 2025 (10:01 pm)

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So everyone can ride the bus for free and never see a rent increase, those who believe that nonsense have no idea how the City functions and want everything for free. This isn’t some hippie commune where a belief in a cause is enough to pay the bills.
- Rhonda August 5, 2025 (10:50 pm)
  
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  Yes, Seattle IS a hippie commune. Bruce and Katie are both horrendously awful choices but Harrell has proven that he’s worse. We have shootings nightly and now daily, our arterials are still a ridiculous 25 mph, illegal encampments are bursting into fires that threaten entire neighborhoods, the CID businesses are boarded up, Alki is riddled with new speed bumps, graffiti is worse than ever, etc, etc. 5 days a week I drive just 2 miles across the 90 Bridge to work and there’s no graffiti, no tents, no illegally-parked RVs, no bullet holes, and no boarded up businesses. Seattle should be just as clean and safe and the only difference is the elected officials.
  - Derek August 5, 2025 (11:55 pm)
    
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    All those things are symptoms of a broken capitalistic system. Doing more the same means more of what you said. Harrell is Seattle’s Status Cuomo. Time to attack root causes before things get worse. Wilson is far from being a great leader like Zohran is shaping to be, but she’s a start in the right direction.
    - Build Baby Build August 6, 2025 (9:07 am)
      
      @derek: the problem is at a global level. There’s an asset bubble which is only going to get worse. Those who are facing an affordability crisis will only continue to face an affordability crisis wherever they go in the world. I’d like to see the city tackle this issue – maybe the city creates an index fund of Seattle companies and allows residents to buy into it. Maybe the city builds more and allows its residents to buy one home from the city. What about tax breaks for small businesses that have 401k plans for their employees and match funds (could the city match funds too for low income residents?) same for healthcare. Just raising the minimum wage or adding in extra tenant rights isn’t going to solve these issues. It’ll just make the assets more expensive and jobs harder to come by.
  - Jon Wright August 6, 2025 (7:04 am)
    
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    I note that a 25 mph speed limit (in order to keep pedestrians, transit riders, bicyclists, and other vulnerable road users safe) and speed bumps (to encourage people to actually drive that speed limit) are supposedly on par with shootings as terrible things we have to endure here. Sounds like the poster is miffed about not being able to drive as fast as they want through crowded neighborhoods. Ironically the post calls out gun violence when car drivers inflict much greater mayhem and yet attempts to address the latter are “ridiculous.” I personally worry a lot more about my family getting run over crossing a street than I do about us getting shot, and so I welcome the city’s efforts to make roads safer for all users.
  - bill August 6, 2025 (7:06 am)
    
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    Rhonda: 25 mph speed limits, speed bumps — hippie paradise hell and traffic safety be damned! I am sure you would approve of the felony charges against these parents: (free article) https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/06/opinion/children-traffic-death-parents.html?unlocked_article_code=1.cE8.NpuX.zeZyO4zTP3e-&smid=url-share
  - Oakley34 August 6, 2025 (9:04 am)
    
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    Yep tons of shootings and rampant fires and boarded up businesses on hippie communes. Totally coherent analogy, totally coherent commenter.
  - Why do you care about speedbumps August 6, 2025 (10:25 am)
    
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    Are you a car
    - Lauren August 6, 2025 (12:20 pm)
      
      Actual lol, thank you 🚗
    - WestSide Guy August 6, 2025 (12:25 pm)
      
      Bill & Oakley34 is “Spot ON”. Was the question ‘Are you a car’ suppose to be humorous? Sorry, you missed the mark and more importantly ‘The point’
  - Kathy August 6, 2025 (11:25 am)
    
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    Rhonda, here is what 25 mph speed limits and speed bumps do for us: reduce traffic jams created by collisions; protect vulnerable street users, disabled, elderly and children trying to cross; protect people who choose environment friendly modes like cycle or bus to commute; reduce air pollution that causes lung disease and asthma; reduce noise pollution that causes hearing loss and stress; reduce toxic tire dust that is washed into the rivers and sea poisoning marine life. Are you really against these benefits? We need city leadership that will take action to insure speed limit compliance.
  - Jort August 6, 2025 (8:15 pm)
    
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    What a truly fascinating – dare I say imaginative –view of this city. I’m surprised Kshama Sawant didn’t get a mention. Could we perhaps throw in a few more items from the KOMO “Seattle is Dying” narrative from five years ago? Hey, here’s a hint you might want to glean from the primary results: that doomsday shtick ain’t cuttin’ it anymore.
Derp August 5, 2025 (10:15 pm)

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Can you do better for the mess that he was left. I doubt it. I don’t think anyone could do any better
- The King August 6, 2025 (7:51 am)
  
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  Harrell was on the city council from 2008-2020. He had a hand in creating this mess he took over

Derek August 5, 2025 (9:09 pm)

Destruction!!! Put this conservative council on notice! Love it!!! So happy

Orb August 5, 2025 (10:32 pm)

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If you think Seattle has a conservative council you are part of the problem.
- Derek August 5, 2025 (11:34 pm)
  
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  The problem was Nelson and Davison and people are wising up so I’m going to soak up this win. Still work to make sure votes go in November
Rhonda August 5, 2025 (11:23 pm)

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What conservative council? The current one is just as far to the left of any major city in the USA. Turnout is too low to get any real read on the pulse of the electorate, anyway. The General is the only Election that matters.
- Derek August 5, 2025 (11:48 pm)
  
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  The one that has a lady who took PPP loans for her business. The one full of business owners and corporate lawyers. No one for the people. Conservative doesn’t mean MAGA. Nelson is a standard issue vanilla George Bush throwback. She wants tax breaks for the wealthy and gutting social services. Conservative stuff. Believe it or not Rhonda, not every single policy needs to be designed and catering to the property owning wealthy. The renters and laborers are people too.
  - Rhonda August 6, 2025 (12:29 am)
    
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    19.76% turnout so far in Seattle is pathetic. That means over 8 out of 10 Seattle registered voters are satisfied with the current elected officials. Not voting is voting.
    - CAM August 6, 2025 (6:49 am)
      
      Well considering those “votes” don’t count Rhonda, I would respectfully argue that not voting is not in fact voicing an opinion that anyone can draw any conclusions about. Voluntarily making yourself invisible doesn’t allow other people to.infer your intent.
    - Kristina August 6, 2025 (9:03 am)
      
      I voted yesterday, and when I dropped off my ballot at the box in the Junction there was a steady stream of people coming up to do the same. That low percentage of turnout will certainly rise as day-of voters are counted. It’s not a majority of eligible voters, but I do believe the numbers will climb.
  - anonyme August 6, 2025 (6:30 am)
    
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    Derek, I’m glad to see you acknowledge that “conservative doesn’t mean MAGA” but as you demonize both without discretion it doesn’t really matter. What I do take issue with is your assertion that all people who own homes are not only wealthy, but not even people by your description. FYI, “laborers” also live in houses. Some people, like myself, bought their homes through low-income assistance programs and/or saved up by working hourly wage jobs for many decades. When I was growing up in Detroit, most factory workers owned homes. Their kids inherited those homes. Are these not real people? Your discrimination and prejudice are indiscriminate, inaccurate, and indefensible. This kind of uninformed zealotry only serves to further divide our city and our country.
    - Derek August 6, 2025 (9:32 am)
      
      Those factory workers owned homes because of the exact policies Katie Wilson is pushing so I am confused what you mean. Ford factory workers had the United Auto Workers union which negotiated higher wages and pensions. It was also a lightning in a bottled situation with a post-war boom this country literally never saw again as population climbed and housing supply went down. Wilson is pro labor and pro housing supply. Sounds like you’re a Wilson fan. We need that exact union density (workers getting the majority of the money supply over managerial and business owner class).
    - Nolan August 6, 2025 (3:21 pm)
      
      I would be embarrassed to be this openly reactionary to the basic reality of class divide in Seattle and which side 8/9 of our council sits on.
      
      At least try to hold off on pulling out words like “prejudice” and “zealotry” when someone points out the council only works for the rich.
  - Seattlite August 6, 2025 (8:28 am)
    
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    Derek…”Property owning wealthy”…Who are you referring to, Derek? Are you referring to the hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding citizens who work every single day to pay their mortgages, put food on the table, pay their bills on time, care for their families? Are these the citizens you claim to be wealthy?
    - Derek August 6, 2025 (10:43 am)
      
      Working class property owners, no, but I am mostly talking about renting and housing supply regardless of owning/renting. We need more density re: housing. And more money facilitated to lower and middle class by adding wealth and corporate tax structures that even the playing field. Most people are one paycheck away from being homeless. Wilson represents change in policy making to Harrell’s status quo that just funnels more money into Amazon and Vulcan’s pocket (as noticed by the Vulcan people in his TV ads)
    - Build Baby Build August 6, 2025 (1:27 pm)
      
      @derek: be careful of making promises that are going to be very very difficult to keep. This leads to backlash and even more conservative rule in the future. Example: how many homes do you think Seattle will need to build to reverse a worldwide increase in asset prices? The answer will never be enough. Voters need to understand that affordability is never coming back.
    - Wondering August 6, 2025 (11:59 pm)
      
      Even if affordability is never coming back, does that mean we just shouldn’t build any more housing at all? What is your suggestion?

Purple Pilot August 5, 2025 (9:17 pm)

Lunacy…back to eliminating consequences for bad behavior

CAM August 5, 2025 (11:18 pm)

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It seems that a large portion of the electorate would tell you that they did in fact demonstrate the consequences of bad behavior today.
K August 6, 2025 (11:18 am)

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Harrell pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a dispute over a parking spot and went on to serve multiple terms on city council, then get elected mayor. Nelson illegally blocked a public right-of-way in front of her business because she didn’t like the people parking there and she was made the city council president. Davidson cleared the city’s backlog of pending criminal cases by dismissing most of them. If voting these clowns out is not consequences for people behaving badly, I don’t know what is.

WSzombie August 5, 2025 (9:27 pm)

I’ll never understand why people vote for the democracy vouchers. It’s a tax on voters to pay for wealthy candidate’s campaigns who we don’t even want to vote for.

anonyme August 6, 2025 (6:21 am)

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Completely agree. Vouchers do NOTHING to help ordinary citizens elect candidates that represent them, because no such candidate exists. And btw, rich people get vouchers too, so how does this level the playing field? I’ve only used vouchers once, as there are so rarely candidates that I support. I’d rather pay lower taxes, even if it’s only a fraction. Can’t believe this nonsense is passing; only in Seattle.
WS Person August 6, 2025 (8:25 am)

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Agreed! It’s so bizarre that people want to tax themselves to force people to contribute to campaigns. Want to donate?- donate. This forces people to finance campaigns. Of course, renters are a majority and vote for every property tax increase. Then complain that the cost of housing is too high.
- natinstl August 6, 2025 (3:58 pm)
  
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  I get so annoyed that I have to may more than the democracy voucher even alots for in my property tax. The math doesn’t math and frankly I’m not even sure how this is legal.
Build Baby Build August 6, 2025 (8:57 am)

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@ wszombie: I’ve been a big advocate of them in the past. I use them every year. Rarely do I see candidates accepting them when they’re mailed. Rarely do I see hear about other voters using them. No more. I voted now. When we have so many priorities, why don’t we put that money into I don’t anything else.
walkerws August 6, 2025 (9:01 am)

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Democracy vouchers concretely helped level the playing field for a candidate like Katie Wilson, who is demonstrably not wealthy.
KinesthesiaAmnesia August 6, 2025 (9:27 am)

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Not all candidates opt in to the voluntary program and its requirements so like you said, we may end up subsidizing or supporting candidates we would not be supporting anyways.Another thing that really sticks in my craw about the democracy voucher program is the vouchers are tracked and not anonymous. The Seattle Ethics and Elections Committee verifies the signatures on the vouchers before releasing funds to the candidates. They say it’s needed to ensure transparency and accountability in the campaign fundraising process. Similar to an actual campaign contribution where you write a check or donate to whoever. But I feel like this publicizes what I would hope to be an anonymous vote. My immigrant grandma who was really proud to be a naturalized voting US citizen always told me to never ever share my vote. I’ve had canvassers for Seattle candidates knock on my door and point out that I haven’t sent in any of my vouchers yet, so can I give 1 or all 4 of them to their candidate? I tell them I ran them through the shredder, followed by language I don’t care to repeat in a family newspaper. But people pounding on my door to point out I haven’t given a voucher to their party or candidate doesn’t seem like American democracy to me. However that’s just my two cents. More info here https://www.seattle.gov/democracyvoucher/about-the-program
WS Res August 6, 2025 (10:27 am)

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What a weird reply. You can give your democracy vouchers to any candidate they want so long as their campaign meets the (very low) viability threshhold.

KT August 5, 2025 (9:36 pm)

Electing an immigrant to be the new Executive will send a message to the feds from the great citizens of King County that we will not give up on the Melting Pot that made this country great. Signed me, granddaughter of 4 immigrants.

Seattlite August 6, 2025 (8:33 am)

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My grandparents came to America from Italy during WWI. They came legally, became American citizens who loved their new homeland and all of its opportunities for their nine children. All of them assimilated and learned to speak English within one year and became successful in America. The men of the family fought for America during WWII.
- Oakley34 August 6, 2025 (9:29 pm)
  
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  Did your family have to deal with gangs of masked and unmarked agents disappearing them off the streets without regard to legal status or possession of documents? Because that is what is happening every day in this country right now.

CAM August 5, 2025 (11:21 pm)

I’m extremely pleased to see that the progressives managed to organize themselves sufficiently to make a clear statement that they have a preferred candidate. So much so that there doesn’t even need to be any fretting about a need to consolidate the vote before the general. Maybe, for at least one election cycle, they have learned what happens when they can’t find consensus.

TreeHouse August 6, 2025 (5:46 am)

I am truly done with Harrell and Saka and their insufferable, smug corporate babble that means absolutely nothing. These two are a matching set of out-of-touch, self-congratulating mouthpieces who clearly think they’re smarter than the rest of us. Harrell’s days are (thankfully) numbered, and Saka’s will be too — two more years until we can finally boot out the second half of this ineffective duo.

walkerws August 6, 2025 (10:43 am)

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It is brutal that we have two more years of Saka’s ineptitude, buffoonery, and smug contempt for his constituents.

anonyme August 6, 2025 (6:14 am)

Seattle politics are the flip side of Trumpism – just as insane, but in the opposite direction. How will our country ever recover with these extremes?

pelicans August 6, 2025 (12:30 pm)

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Anonyme, I strongly agreed with you on quite a few issues for many years now. Also, Brian Feusagach has some valid points.Rhonda, as a fellow vet, I find myself agreeing with you more often than not. The term “progressive” is a dog whistle to the far left, who will inflict as much damage to our country, left unchecked, as the far right. Extremism on both sides will asolutely prevent us from working together , moving forward and fixing our problems.

Mellow Kitty August 6, 2025 (6:26 am)

If you didn’t vote, shut up.

Jack August 6, 2025 (6:50 am)

As long as I have lived here, one immutable truth emerges about becoming mayor in this town- the losers always delay capital projects until the election year in West Seattle, the largest neighborhood in the city. Election year is when the parks get cleaned up too; in fact, it was on a walk in Lincoln Park that I realized that it must be an election year, not that it’s the driest summer in 130 years, to account for the clean up. Only losers treat their largest neighborhood voting block this way, and if you win West Seattle, you can lose everywhere else and still become mayor. That should be a hard political reality to ignore at your own peril, yet time and time again…

Parker August 6, 2025 (11:34 am)

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Clean up in Lincoln Park?
That would be good news if it were true.

The Lincoln Park hill trails are deteriorating and remain unsafe.
The cove path has seen no maintenance (save for removal of slides and fallen trees).

Joe Z August 6, 2025 (8:57 am)

It will never cease to amaze me that the downfall of this council and mayor is largely a single reporter who attends an ungodly number public meetings and simply reports on what was said and decided on social media. I can’t imagine a single person who follows them is in favor of the incumbents, and they have a lot of followers.

Scarlett August 6, 2025 (10:16 am)

If Seattle is a “hippie commune” there sure are a lot hippies along with their portfolio’s who are profiting rather nicely off the financial system and corporations they pretend to loathe along with their conservative counterparts. Talk is the only commodity that hasn’t inflated, it’s still really, really cheap.

Brian Feusagach August 6, 2025 (10:30 am)

Have we not learned our lessons from having such a progressive city leadership? Before you jump all over me, I am neither far-left nor far-right … I would say I am left-of-center. To me, this means I am willing to listen to, and compromise with, those with centrist or right-of-center viewpoints. We will accomplish much more when the vast majority governs from the middle and we keep the right/left fringes out there where they belong.

Scarlett August 6, 2025 (11:37 am)

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You want sit around and gaze into each other’s eyes and whisper sweet nothings when we’re slipping into economic feudalism? This is classic petit bourgeoisie talk.
CAM August 6, 2025 (12:23 pm)

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Judging by what the “center” is currently loosely defined as and what it was considered to be 50-100 years ago, I’m going out on a limb here and saying that (barring the advancement of basic human rights, meaning we treat humans like humans) the center has been gradually shifting further and further right since the mid to late 70s. So, I’m not particularly interested in being told that what would have been considered a conservative policy/talking point more than 50 years ago is somehow something I should strive for today as a bastion of liberal values.
Nolan August 6, 2025 (1:05 pm)

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It’s funny how “compromise” never seems to include compromising with left viewpoints, isn’t it?

HTB August 6, 2025 (11:30 am)

You would think that “renters” are an actual, important political constituency and that it’s a permanent condition. Psst – renting is something you do temporarily before you buy a house.

Nolan August 6, 2025 (3:18 pm)

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Briefly ignoring that not everyone wants (or should be forced) to own a house, how long do you think it takes the average person to buy one in Seattle?
Derek August 6, 2025 (4:08 pm)

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Tell that to the person who serves you your food who cannot afford it because you want to take away their ability to make a high wage and healthcare to boot. Completely wild comment to make to assume people should be forced to buy a home. The whole system is flawed forever. Policy should be catered to the working majority always, not wealthy few.

Maria August 6, 2025 (11:45 am)

This comment section proves that Seattle is indeed unsaveable from itself.

Bill#1 August 7, 2025 (6:20 am)

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Accurate assessment!

Kadoo August 6, 2025 (12:01 pm)

The potential return to ‘progressive’ leadership does not make this centrist happy. I used to lean more toward the left but Sawant turned me into a centrist.

Foop August 6, 2025 (2:18 pm)

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Is sawant in the room with you right now?

935 August 6, 2025 (12:13 pm)

This is hilarious!! The Seattle Voter(TM) strikes again!This time I’m one of them – and henceforth I am just going to vote for the most extreme lefty possible. I hope to vote for Sawant! You all want to burn down the city?? I’m on board! I am still voting NO on all property taxes (but I don’t really care anyway – I’m still gonna sell for north of 7 figures)Pass the gas can!!

Jort August 7, 2025 (1:51 pm)

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“Everything about Seattle sucks! Especially the … *** checks notes *** … gigantic appreciation in real estate value that will net me a 7 figure payout! But, yeah! Everything sucks!”

Scarlett August 6, 2025 (12:47 pm)

I don’t compromise with injustice, nor do I countenance deception or hypocrisy, nor believe there is an inherent goodness in a majority, or a concensus.

natinstl August 6, 2025 (4:02 pm)

In the 2023 election, only 30,649 voters donated any of their four $25 vouchers to candidates. That amounts to only 4.72% of Seattle voters. That means about 95% of city voters lost track of them in their mail pile, recycled them or tossed them.How on earth do people vote to continue to tax themselves for programs that don’t work or people don’t use?

Derek August 6, 2025 (6:09 pm)

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It literally worked for Katie Wilson

Westwood resident August 6, 2025 (7:15 pm)

Katie Wilson isn’t even from Seattle. She moved here in 2004 from NY…Before founding TRU, Katie graduated salutatorian of her high school class in Binghamton, New York and studied physics and philosophy at Oxford University. She arrived in Seattle in 2004 and worked a wide range of jobs to make ends meet: barista, lab tech, laborer, boatyard worker, apartment manager, legal assistant, and more.

Lauren August 6, 2025 (7:32 pm)

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So she’s been here 20 years. How long does one need to live here before they’re “from” Seattle? I’m sick to death of these types of comments, and I’m born and raised West Seattleite.
Foop August 6, 2025 (11:41 pm)

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She sounds relatable.
Bill#1 August 7, 2025 (6:24 am)

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Sounds like a well rounded work experience resume!